God Is Not Counting Sins!

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Oh yeah, hey, how are you doing?
Doing well, how are you?
I'm doing fine, just at school and stuff like that.
And I just want to say thank you because you guys have really just opened my eyes to the truth.
And I'm only 15, so I'm just trying to spread the gospel to others.
And it's sad that a lot of people think that they're forgiven when they believe the gospel, which is not true.
So I see exactly what you guys are saying, so I just wanted to say thank you.
It's awesome to hear from a young man such as yourself.
I wish I had have known and come to the knowledge of this truth when I was your age.
You've got a lot ahead of you, man, so I encourage you to keep listening and growing in God's grace and to become an ambassador for Him, and you can share this wonderful news with others.
Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah, of course, yeah, it's such a great opportunity.
As far as what you said about being forgiven, that's something that took place on the cross.
That's why you hear me say getting sins forgiven and salvation are different.
They even have different calendar dates.
One happened on the cross, and one happens at the moment you believe.
Understanding that is crucial to our salvation.
Yeah, I was watching the video, and it's a guy's channel I used to watch, and I basically commented, and I said, yeah, we've all been forgiven, but you're not forgiven when you believe the gospel.
And basically, he said it's just totally false, and he just has hundreds of people watching his videos, and it's just kind of sad that people are being misled.
So I just try my best and try to reach out to people, but all I can do is just try.
It's really just agreeing with God and deciding to believe His Word over man and the denominational religious system.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just crazy.
People are trusting their water baptism and their confession.
I mean, I don't know, I just see life so differently now.
Yeah, it does, it changes your perspective and thinking.
When you come to that grace perspective, and you get this, the entire Word of God begins to open up to you.
Yeah, yeah, it really does, and you know, when I read Romans, Philemon and stuff like
that, I just see how a lot of people, it's sad that they go to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and just stay there.
I always tell someone, watch out for someone who just stays in Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John.
You know, we need to be following Paul, and I don't know, it's sad people don't rightly divide.
And I'm like, there's a verse that says in Timothy, I'm pretty sure, to rightly divide, but people just ignore that.
Yeah, it's one of the most ignored verses in the Bible is, you're correct, it's 2 Timothy 2:15.
Yeah.
You know, like, when we rightly divide and stuff like that, when I watch, you know, when I've listened to the podcast and everything like that, everything just made so much sense.
And it's like, I don't know if you've heard of a teacher, Robert Breaker.
I used to listen to him.
I was on the way of thinking that, okay, now that if I trust his blood, you know, present tense, my sins are washed away, and I receive eternal life and I believe the gospel, I get forgiveness and salvation.
And I was thinking that for a very long time, but then I came, you know, to listen to the podcast and everything like that, and he just explained, you know, reconciliation and stuff like that.
And I just found out, like, I mean, we've all been forgiven, but people are still trying to get their sins forgiven.
And I was thinking that way, too.
And I was wrong.
Well, it's great that you figured this out at the young age of 15, but you are so correct there because the problem is some people are trusting in their belief to having forgiven them of their sins instead of his shed blood.
So when you place your belief in front of his shed blood, then we have a vital problem here.
Yeah.
And it just made sense.
I was like, in a way, I was like, yeah, like, that's a work you're trying to get forgiven outside of the source that forgave, like, you can't do that, you know?
So I don't know, it's just very—and I was still wrong.
I was listening to another one of your videos.
I think I ended up getting saved a couple days ago because, you know, I watched one
of your videos about, like, sin confession, and, like, nowhere in Paul's epistles
is there a confession for sins at all.
And in a way, I still believed, you know, Jesus Christ died for all of our sins, you
know, we're forgiven at the cross, he was buried and rose again on the third day.
But in a way, I still thought, I was like, okay, now that I'm saved, in my head I was
thinking I was saved, that, you know, as a walk, as a Christian, and if I do something wrong, I have a sin to confess, and I still thought I still had sin on me, not knowing that—not knowing that, you know, I'm not in my sins because Jesus rose again.
So I mean, I was still wrong.
Which video was that that you were listening to of ours that—when you got saved?
I was watching—one of your videos, I was watching on Forgiveness, but I was listening
to another podcast when I was in class, and I was thinking back on it, and it was Sin
Confession Is Not For Us Today, I think it's titled.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I know the one you're talking about.
Now that I came to understand, like, Jesus literally did it all.
He died for all our sins on the cross, all our sins were forgiven at the cross, and He was buried and rose again, and all I had to do was just believe it.
I mean, it just really just opened my eyes to just how wonderful God is and what He did for us.
Yes, sir.
And to think that, you know, you could continue on, just like I, you could have continued on in this walk, thinking that you're saved, and as you've probably heard me say, the only thing worse than going to hell is going there and being surprised.
Yeah.
So it's these little subtleties that the religious system throws in there.
They preach, they don't preach bare-necked lies.
They're masking these lies with some truth, but just enough lie sprinkled in to have you believing that you're saved when you're in actuality on your way to hell.
Yeah.
Yeah, the blood is what, you know, forgave our sins, but that slight little lie was our trust had to be in it to make it true.
Like, that just doesn't make sense.
And I mean, I'm just trying to open my mom's eyes to it, and other people's eyes to it.
I feel like a lot of people do not believe that their sins were forgiven at the cross.
They have to do something outside of what Jesus Christ did for forgiveness of sins.
And I mean, it's just scary.
It kind of scares the daylight out of me when I look around, and it's just like, people are deceived into believing a lie.
Yes, sir.
And you try to tell them this, and they look at you like you came from the moon or something like that.
It's crazy.
Yeah, and they did Paul the same way, and so you're in good company.
Jesus Christ, they did him the same way.
So that's just, truth is a separator.
It's a, truth is a divider.
Yeah.
You have people who will say that we're saved by grace through faith, yet they turn around and tell you that you are still in your sins if you don't believe, or if you don't do something else.
Just fill in the blank.
It's according to what flavor of denomination you're listening to.
They always will throw in, there's something you need to do to be forgiven.
That's straight out spitting on the cross, I mean, Christ goes to the cross, dies for
all mankind's sins, God says, okay, I'm satisfied, and then here comes preacher Bob along to tell you, no, he's not satisfied, you're still in your sin until you believe, or you're still in your sin until you confess them, and repent of them, and be water baptized, and on and on the list goes, this is man-centered, this is narcissism.
That's what it is.
Man is in his self, and he can't come away.
That's why I call it selfianity.
It's not Christianity, it's selfianity.
Yeah, and I was listening to a so-called grace teacher, and I think two scary things that these grace teachers that are 99% right end up missing, it's like they believe that Jesus Christ didn't pay for the sin of unbelief, and another one that I was watching was that he was going against worship salvation, and he was just saying how they say surrender your life, do this and do that, they caught me up in that too, and so later on I found out the truth, but he still was wrong, and I heard him say something, he said, how can you surrender your life when you're still dead in your sins?
And I was like, you're not in your sins, so you're still thinking you're in your sins
calling yourself a grace teacher, and I was like, this is crazy.
I'm so glad you're catching this at such a young age.
Yeah.
Where are you calling from?
I live in Colorado.
Okay.
Colorado.
Yeah.
What part?
Denver, or?
I live in Denver, but I go to school in Thornton, it's like a 20 minute drive.
Well, it's just awesome to hear from you, and to think that you're 15, you understand
Paul's gospel of the grace of God, you understand he's our apostle, and you're in the dispensation of grace, and you're very keen and clear on this message, so I certainly hope you continue in your walk, and you feel free to call us any time you have any questions, we will certainly be here to help you along, because you're to be admired at a young age to already be preaching this gospel to your peers.
Yeah, thank you, thank you.
And do you have any other questions while you're here on the line?
A question I have is, so when we say finished work, because I know we say finished crosswork, like Jesus died for all of our sins and everything like that, and shed his blood and our sins were forgiven, but would we, like technically, would the finished work technically also be like the death, the burial, and resurrection?
Since like the resurrection is like, we're not in our sins anymore because Christ has
been raised, like would that all technically be the finished work?
Right, right, you're technically correct.
I say the finished crosswork, because that's what it centers around, but yes, the resurrection has to be included, and that's why we continue to point our Truth Time listeners to the 1st letter to the Corinthians that Paul wrote there in chapter 15, where he identifies, you know, in verse 1, he says, I declare unto you the gospel, and in verse 2, he says, which also ye are saved.
So you're saved by what?
The gospel, and what is the gospel, Paul?
Verse 3, I deliver it unto you, first of all, that which I also received, how that
Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, and verse four, he concludes with, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures.
So it's all inclusive, this finished work, and that's good that you're technical.
That's good that you're asking these questions.
Okay, yeah.
I was just trying to understand, like, yeah, like, finished work is like the death, burial, resurrection, and we have to believe in that in order to be saved.
So, yeah, thank you.
I was just trying to make sure I wasn't, you know, off a little bit or anything like that.
Right, and it's not just believing in that, it's believing in how that applies to you.
And I know you know that, but just to be clear, it's how, because all denominations, even Catholics, I mean, you won't find anybody on any corner denominational church that does not say they believe in the death, burial, and resurrection, if they claim to be saved.
If they're in church, in a denomination, they claim to be saved, they will tell you straight up that they believe in the death, burial, and resurrection, but they don't understand even what that entails and how that applies to them, because they'll say out of one side of their mouth they believe in what it says in 1 Corinthians 15 verses 1 to 4, then turn around and tell you you need to get your sins forgiven.
So, they don't believe in 1 Corinthians 15:1 to 4, or they would know better than to
say there's any sins that need to be forgiven, because verse 3 says how that Christ died for our sins.
Therefore, there's nothing needed to be done for our sins.
Yeah, yeah, and I just listen to how people just, they say they believe it, but they trust in something else.
I'm just like, guys, you guys are missing the point.
You guys are slightly off.
They just still go to Acts 2:38, or go to sin confession, and do this and do that.
I'm like, guys, the gospel's there for a reason.
I mean, it's just crazy.
It is, and it shows that this religious denominational system is a satanic system at the core, because of, just like Lucifer did in Isaiah, over and over and over, I think it was five different times, in a row, in succession, he says, I, I, I, five straight times, he is a narcissist.
And religions create narcissists.
Whether it's subtle, or whether a full-fledged narcissist, it's still narcissism, and when they say, I was water baptized, I confessed my sins, I turned from sins, I repented of sins, I, I, I, they're into themselves, and they're not focused on the cross.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's, it's very scary just to find out how a man, what a man can think he has to do to get out of his sins outside.
I mean, we're already out of our sins, but it's just scary, like, what extremes people will go to, to have themselves deceived, and deceiving others, by still thinking they're in their sins.
Yes.
I mean, I, I mean, I see so many people deceived, and it's just like, I want to get out the truth, even not to like, you know, my sister, my mom, like, I just want to tell the truth, because my mom picked me up from school a few days ago.
I left to go home early from school, and we're driving, so there's like the Christian station on or whatever, like worship music and stuff, and I listened to like one of like the little like podcasts they had like in between each song or something, and the lady said, ask for forgiveness.
Yes.
And I was like, there's probably millions of people listening to this on the radio,
thinking they have to ask for forgiveness.
And it's just, I, I, I don't know.
Sometimes I'm just out of words.
Right.
So.
Right.
The contradictions and the hypocrisy is almost too much to, to handle on some days.
And, you know, you're correct, and I'm, and that's what you need to do.
Exactly what you just said.
When you're listening to a so-called Christian station, when you're listening to a so-called Christian teacher, including myself and Truth Time, we are to be tested.
And if a man has a problem with you testing him and asking questions, then I would be
questioning, I would question that man and his teaching.
Because if he's secure in what he's teaching, he will not have a problem with you asking questions and being critical and questioning him.
And when you're listening to Christian radio, you should be critical.
You should be a critical thinker at all times.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, uh, I emailed Robert Braker.
I, he didn't elaborate on what I basically was saying, like, um, what do you think?
Like, oh, is this true?
He basically just said, oh, it's all about faith in the blood.
Amen.
And I think he put a verse from like Samuel or something like that.
And then I just seen it.
I was like, yeah, like, I think he thinks his faith in the blood forgives his sin and
brings him to salvation.
It just doesn't make sense.
It just doesn't make sense.
So, I mean, I, I emailed him and last night I just went back to listen to, you know, some more podcasts of yours and stuff like that.
Um, and I was just listening to that and I just came to the conclusion that like, I think you're like probably like the only guy I can listen to out here.
And I, you know, one of the only people I can listen to cause it's like, I can't find
really any places on YouTube that teach, I mean, what we, what we understand.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
There are few and far.
There are some, but there, you know, it, it's a remnant and, and it always has been.
It's always a remnant of God's people who are preaching the unadulterated, unperverted gospel, the truth of the scriptures rightly divided, but they're actually everywhere.
I mean, they're all across the planet, but in comparison, in comparison to, uh, you know, the religious system, it's again, it's just a small remnant, just a small band of believers.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's so easy.
It's just scary how easy it is just to go to heaven, but people just want to add and
just complicate it because I think this man is just so prideful.
Like we want to earn something and it's just, now I can see it.
Like now I can see it and it's just, it's crazy.
So I, I just try to not see what Jesus said when he said, you know, so that's really
narrow, really narrow.
When I understood, I think I was watching everybody.
I forgot what video it was called, but when I heard what you were saying, I was like,
yeah, like what you're saying is way too narrow for the broad, like, you know, for the broad way, like for people to understand.
And I seen what you were saying and the verses you guys had to back it up.
And I was like, this is just absolute truth.
So like, you know, I'm, I'm just so glad I'm on the narrow way with you guys and I
can just learn.
It's, it's awesome.
Yes, sir.
And we're glad to have you, you know, and you brought up a point there about the simplicity.
Paul tells, um, in the second letter to the Corinthians over there in chapter 11, he told him, he said, Hey, Hey guys, I fear less by any means as the serpent, and he's going back to Genesis, beguiled Eve through his subtlety.
So should your minds be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
So there were some there at Corinth having their minds corrupted from the simplicity,
you know, some theologian, some so-called scholar was coming along and adding to the
simplicity that Paul had given them and they were being corrupted.
And that's the same thing that's happening today.
You see, when we read a moment ago, 1 Corinthians chapter 15, that simple gospel
that to people is too good to be true.
That's the problem.
They always have to add something to the simplicity because it seems too good to be true.
Yeah, man, this is just, it's just a lot to, at first when I found out the truth, it was kind of a lot to take in.
But then, I mean, I just read the verses for myself and I just came to find out that all I had to do was just believe in the gospel to be saved.
That's all that it took.
That's all that it took.
It's just so simple.
So now I see what Paul was talking about.
You know, I've just been trying to understand and grow and this has been a great opportunity just to talk and I mean, just to understand what it's like to really be a Bible believer.
Yes, sir.
Thank you for your call there in Colorado.
And man, it's great to hear from you.
And again, we're here for you.
Email, phone call, whatever you need.
And you keep growing in the Lord, brother.
Okay.
Thank you so much.
Yes, sir.
Bye-bye.
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